rayzor

Who is to say what's realistic and, even at that....who the fug cares what anyone's "realistic" take is? I'm not upset by anyone's take on it. I'm just an advocate for something other than the take that there's no reason to be optimistic. A realistic take, in my opinion (because there is no objectivity in anyone's take at this point) is that the season hasn't been played yet and there's been movement that can be seen as us heading in a positive direction ...or a negative one, depending on your perspective. I don't believe the part to be an accurate predictor of the future if changes have been made. And don't think you aren't allowed to get in a discussion with me just because I'm a mod. I don't ban people for disagreeing with me. I just look for reasons to feel good about the team. It's easy to feel like crap about it based on the past. I'm just tired of feeling like that so i quit. We aren't losing yet so why not take a moment to feel ok about what's going on? Again, that's just me. I'm giving an alternative to the easy pessimistic takes.

Is it worse than being pessimistic about the season way before it starts?

cousins is no cam newton. he's no jake delhomme. he's got no clutch in him. he's kind of a matt ryan lite.

i ain't slowing nothing down. if it leads to a cliff...so be it.

this. more than anything else, they needed weapons and dammit we got 'em.

i love it. in a draft where you screw over the pats and the cowboys and rip off the rams, i think we did good. i don't have a problem with the rams, btw. but it was nice not getting the bad end of a deal like that deal for once.

I think KB was hungry.

i'm not going to criticize good being done, esp. by saying "is that all?"

Even after he retires he still shows up. I swear I'm going to start banning people who make threads drawing attention to him

Just make it fun again. Make it interesting

I'm sorry but that's just an awful take not really worth the effort of debating.

losing still has some perks.

i think that in the last year or two of fox, we had started becoming complacent and just accepted losing as not a big deal. we were ok with it. with cam (NOT because of Rivera) we started getting some of that grit back, but then after the superbowl run in '15 gettleman killed the team by gutting it. since then we never recovered. guys that could have helped us, he let go. rivera was a nice guy. he wasn't a tough leader that brought out the best in people. the league let cam get beat up because they didn't like him rivera and our front office had no spine to stand up for him. then rhule came and whatever fight/keep pounding spirit we had in us, he ran out of town. you combine all that with what you were talking about, NFL becoming a finesse passing league, made the league soft. i think with the way it appears we are getting rebuilt, we will be bringing back some smashmouth. will we focus on pounding the rock a lot of the game? i sure hope so because teams aren't really built to stop that kind of thing anymore. and the more you are built like that, the further you will go in the playoffs.

you are correct, it's too early to judge. one thing that's interesting to think about is, we have have a pretty good idea of what dan is looking for and that vision is a bit more clear in the draft. it's kind of these ferocious guys that have that fight or that dawg in them. some have a lot of natural talent, but are a bit unrefined and untuned, but they play with a lot of aggression. and we can see that he's trying to get us back to a point where no matter what we did, we were going to be putting up a fight. i think both he and canales have that in mind, but more morgan in the design and he got canales in to get that fight in them tuned and refined and channeled where it needs to go. looking back at the past couple regimes...rhule, reich, fitt...especially fitt...what was the plan? what was their vision of the panthers? what did they have in mind? i don't think i know. i don't think they knew.

i think part of his game prep is memorizing where everyone is supposed to be at any point within a play and then counting on them to be near there...that's what i recall anyways, could be wrong there. but what i remember is he throws where people are supposed to be so they just have to be near there and able to make the play for the ball when they aren't in perfect position for the catch. that makes guys like XL more important for bryce. Diontae will help because he can shake loose of coverage. i think that Coker does some of that as well.

I guess you got to start somewhere

makes sense to make these changes after the draft is over. probably should have been expected. can't really make these kind of moods during the draft season. wouldn't have enough time to get ready for it.

i'm just glad it's not another season of rhule or the reich mess. hopefully we got on another boat than the titanic this time.

we've seen a similar movie so we think we know how it's going to end. new year. new movie.

imagine what could happen since we drafted XL, Brooks, and JT. imagine what it could be like with Diontae Johnson catching the ball. imagine what the defense could look like with Clowney chasing down QBs and Evero getting more guys that fit what he wants to do. imagine having a coaching staff that isn't going around either wiping dorito crumbs off their shirts like the rhule era or stabbing themselves in the back like last year. imagine bryce with playmaking weapons and an OL with talented giant OGs giving him some actual protection. these are just the few of the things we can be talking about in the offseason. we've got a lot to look forward to and don't accomplish anything by looking back. just my measly .02

stuck...again.

Move forward.

people were talking about how excited McVay probably was at getting a first round pick this year and i think he was probably like...